assorted clippings
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bunrabScience News from 20 January: hamsters and other pet rodents are likely spreaders of salmonella. Wash your hands after you snorgle your hamsters. Also from same issue, note to self, gene variant shapes beta-blocker's effectiveness, and the beta-blocker in question is carvedilol, which is one of the drugs I take; unknown exactly when cheap testing for this gene will be available, but the note to myself is that I might be one of the people it's not effective on, which would explain some.
Clipping of ad as note to self: look for in library, Adam Gopnik's The King in the Window as ad makes it sound like an interesting kid's fantasy.
Clipping of ad for a yarn company, of interest only to yarn freaks, except that this one is notable for its tag line, "Yarns for which to dye!" which is just a really silly example of how people have bought into the "don't end a sentence with a preposition" nonsense.
Book review (short) in Science News of 21 October 2006 (yes, it's been a while since I last cleared the stack of magazines off my nightstand; why do you ask?) for a book called Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom by Wallace Arthur, sounds interesting.
Current issue of Skeptical Inquirer (Vol. 31, No. 2) is mostly articles on science and religion. Odd little poem by Alan Dean Foster, who should leave the atheist-poetry-writing field to Philip Appleman, who does it much better. What I did make a note of in this issue, however, is a letter to the editor about an article in a previous issue. Here's the letter:
3 February issue of New Scientist also has a letter in it, and again I will give you the entire letter:
Some dog-eared pages from the November 2006 issue of Prevention; I have no idea why. Oh wait, this little bit at the end of a paragraph might be it: if you are taking zinc to stave off/reduce a cold (mixed research on whether it accomplishes anything), don't take flavored ones, since if the zinc does have any effect, it's stunted by citric acid and tartaric acid, common in flavorings.
A rundown of stuff happening during March, in the March issue of Discover, oncludes the lunar eclipse on the 3rd - you all knew about that already - but also mentions that March 31 is Bunsen Burner Day. "Yes, there's a day for that." - their words.
There, that clears off a BIG stack of magazines from my desk. Maybe now I can spread out my music.
Clipping of ad as note to self: look for in library, Adam Gopnik's The King in the Window as ad makes it sound like an interesting kid's fantasy.
Clipping of ad for a yarn company, of interest only to yarn freaks, except that this one is notable for its tag line, "Yarns for which to dye!" which is just a really silly example of how people have bought into the "don't end a sentence with a preposition" nonsense.
Book review (short) in Science News of 21 October 2006 (yes, it's been a while since I last cleared the stack of magazines off my nightstand; why do you ask?) for a book called Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom by Wallace Arthur, sounds interesting.
Current issue of Skeptical Inquirer (Vol. 31, No. 2) is mostly articles on science and religion. Odd little poem by Alan Dean Foster, who should leave the atheist-poetry-writing field to Philip Appleman, who does it much better. What I did make a note of in this issue, however, is a letter to the editor about an article in a previous issue. Here's the letter:
The article "Searching to Noah Vale" by Benjamin Radford (Nov/Dec 2006) couldn't have come at a more opportune time. I am the host of "This Week in Atheism," a panel discussion on a public-access, cable-television show in New York City. Near the end of the summer, we commented on an article concerning Bob Cornuke's "discovery" of what he would very much like to be the real Noah's Ark in Iran. We mentioned that, in light of other claims that it had been seen in Turkey, the Ark must once again be on the move. In order to track its movements, we have initiated "Ark Watch," a segment during which we appeal to our viewers to immediately notify us if they have seen, among other things, Noah's Ark, Noah himself, indentations in the ground that could have been made by the ribs or keel of an ark, or if they have ever eaten a serving of ribs. I would like to extend that invitation to Skeptical Inquirer readers. They should please contact us at our Web site, www.centerforatheism.org, if they have seen, or can spell, "Noah's Ark" or think they might know someone who may have been married to, stood next to, or walked by someone who has, or is willing to spring for an order of ribs.There you have it - please add your Ark sightings to the web site!
/signed/
3 February issue of New Scientist also has a letter in it, and again I will give you the entire letter:
RS's letter [in a previous issue] reminds me of a signature line that I saw on a contribution ot an online bulletin board. It read: "If atheism is a faith, then not playing chess is a hobby."The issue also has a review of The Last Human by Esteban Sarmiento et al., which also sounds interesting - discusses as much as we know about the daily life of each species of hominid, sort of a family album, of which we humans are the last living member.
/s/
Some dog-eared pages from the November 2006 issue of Prevention; I have no idea why. Oh wait, this little bit at the end of a paragraph might be it: if you are taking zinc to stave off/reduce a cold (mixed research on whether it accomplishes anything), don't take flavored ones, since if the zinc does have any effect, it's stunted by citric acid and tartaric acid, common in flavorings.
A rundown of stuff happening during March, in the March issue of Discover, oncludes the lunar eclipse on the 3rd - you all knew about that already - but also mentions that March 31 is Bunsen Burner Day. "Yes, there's a day for that." - their words.
There, that clears off a BIG stack of magazines from my desk. Maybe now I can spread out my music.
